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The Opioid Settlement | on 60 Minutes

WATCH – NEVER ENOUGH – March 9, 2025 - With Ryan Hampton! Cecilia Vega investigates how the Purdue Pharma opioid settlement— potentially one of the largest opioid settlements ever— will compensate victims of the opio... Read More...

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Sackler Family to Pay $7.4 Billion for Addicting Americans

VIDEO – January 23, 2025 - Purdue, under the leadership of the Sackler families, invented, manufactured and aggressively marketed opioid products for decades. States and cities across the country said it fueled waves... Read More...

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Virginia Filmmaker’s New Take On Opioid Epidemic

AUDIO – A KILLER PILL – Oct. 26, 2024 - The film begins with attorney Paul Farrell Junior giving a tour of his hometown – Huntington, West Virginia. “There’s been a slow decay. The jobs have dried up,” he says. “C... Read More...

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FDA Approves Purdue Pharma’s Overdose-Reversal Device

THE NERVE – Aug. 7, 2024 - Purdue Pharma, the company best known for fueling the opioid crisis by misleadingly marketing the infamous painkiller OxyContin, received approval on Wednesday for a new auto-injecto... Read More...

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$86 Million Opioid Settlement

NOT ENOUGH! – July 26, 2024 - Indivior reached an $86 million settlement with 16 U.S. states over the drug manufacturer’s alleged role in spreading opioid addiction across the United States, New York Att... Read More...

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Will Murderous Sackler Family Face a Reckoning?

STILL MASS MURDERERS – June 27, 2024 - A divided Court blocked a controversial proposed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that would have provided billions of dollars to help address the nation’s opioid cris... Read More...

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New Jersey Will Receive Nearly $9.5M from Opioid Settlement

AIN’T ENOUGH – Feb. 2, 2024 - “When you visit a physician, you do not expect that the details of your most intimate and personal struggles with illness and pain will be converted into pharmaceutical product ma... Read More...

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French PR Agency to Pay $350 Million for its Role in Our Opioid Crisis

THE WHOLE WORLD WAS WATCHING – Feb. 2, 2024 - A subsidiary of the French advertising giant Publicis will pay 350 million dollars (or around 320 million euros) to the United States for its role in the opioid crisis in... Read More...

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Exhibit on Addiction At Harvard’s Sackler Museum, Yes, Those Sacklers!

AUDIO – IRONIC AND IDIOTIC – Jan. 17, 2024 - As we left the second floor gallery, I looked up at the entrance. Regal silver letters announced it was the Arthur M. Sackler Museum. My stomach churned as I realized th... Read More...

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Consulting Company Fined $78 Million For Opioid Deaths

NO JAIL TIME? – Dec, 30, 2023 - Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $78 million to resolve claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that it fueled an epidemic of opioid addiction through its w... Read More...

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Opioid Settlement Divides Victims

MONEY MATTERS – Dec. 3, 2023 - “If it gets blown up, nobody gets anything,” Carter, of Maynard, Mass., said of the settlement. “And still nothing is going to happen to the Sacklers.” Ed Bisch, who lost his 18-year-ol... Read More...

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Nan Goldin on Vaping, Orgasms, and Greek Myths

MORE – Oct. 24, 2023 - Since the 80s, Goldin has been working hard. Last year, the Laura Poitras-directed documentary about her life, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, was nominated for an Oscar. At the same t... Read More...

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Four numbers that tell the story of the opioid epidemic

REAL DATA – Sept. 13, 2023 - Here are the numbers that tell the story: 45 percent: The approximate decrease of prescription opioid pain pills shipped in the United States from 2011 to 2019. But ... Read More...

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Sackler Family Doc Shows Different Side of ‘Painkiller’ & ‘Dopesick’ Series

THE REAL HORROR STORY – Sept. 7, 2023 - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a gripping documentary that focuses on Nan Goldin’s activism against the powerful Sackler family, who profited from the opioid crisis. Goldi... Read More...

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Scottish Museum Removes Mentions of Opioid-Linked Murderous Sackler Family

A LEGACY OF DEATH – Sept. 1, 2023 - The V&A Dundee has become the latest UK museum to remove a reference to the money it received from the Sackler family amid continuing anger over its central role in the opioid ... Read More...

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‘Painkiller’ vs. Dopesick’: Whose Richard Sackler Portrayal Is Better?

MATHEW BRODERICK NAILS IT – Aug. 25, 2023 - The most notable comparison would have to be between the two performers who played Richard Sackler, who was the chairman and president at Purdue Pharmaceuticals, whi... Read More...

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Despised Sackler Clan Bribing The Hamptons?

CRIME FAMILY – Aug. 22, 2023 - That negative publicity stepped up this month with the new, fictionalized Netflix film “Painless,” starring Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler. And a blow was dealt by a Supreme Co... Read More...

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‘Painkiller’ Director: “This Story Is a Tragedy”

ALWAYS IS WHEN 400,000 DIE – Aug. 21, 2023 - much to them the medical schools that meant so much to them,” Berg said. “The name now is becoming synonymous with evil greed, and a bunch of other things, and we w... Read More...

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Dead Ringers Has TV’s Best Take on the Sackler Family

VILLAINY FOR REAL – Aug. 18, 2023 - From the outset, the hook of Dead Ringers was reimagining David Cronenberg’s sinister 1990 film by gender-flipping the twin gynecologist characters, played by Jeremy Irons in the o... Read More...

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Netflix’s Painkiller and Hulu’s Dopesick

DEVIOUS FAMILY EXPOSED – Aug. 18, 2023 - As the most dangerous drug introduced by this institution to the American public was Oxycontin, these combating miniseries tread the history of the overwhelming abuse a... Read More...

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Follow the Money: How to Track Opioid Settlement Dollars In Your State

VIDEO – JACKPOT OR JACKED? – Aug. 21, 2023 - In 2023, one of the biggest stories journalists across the country will be covering is the millions of dollars being distributed from settlements of lawsuits against opi... Read More...

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Meet The Man Who Fought The Sacklers

VIDEO – WITH COURAGE AND MORALS – Aug. 15, 2023 - Quinn had helped Goldin form a grassroots group called P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now), which brought attention to the Sacklers’ pivotal role in ... Read More...

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Pete Berg Had Personal Reasons For Wanting To Direct Netflix’s ‘Painkiller’

LISTEN – ADDICTIVE MINI-SERIES – Aug. 15, 2023 - It was a kismet twist of fate that Netflix’s limited series Painkiller premiered in tandem with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reassess Purdue Pharma’s $6 billio... Read More...

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Four Shows to Watch After Netflix’s Painkiller

STREAMING SCANDALS – August 16,2023 - Dopesick: The Crime of the Century: The Pharmacist: How to Fix a Drug Scandal: Painkiller, Netflix’s drama about the opioid crisis is currently the streamer’s #1 English-language... Read More...

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PAIN’KILLERS: Where Is The Murderous Billionaire Sackler Family Today?

VIDEO – EPILOGUE – Aug. 14, 2023 - The series, which Netflix is careful to note is a fictionalized retelling of true events, concludes with Richard being beaten to a bloody pulp by the ghostly apparition of his leg... Read More...

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‘Painkiller’ on Netflix: Superb Film Feels Painfully Real

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – August 9,2023 - The cast is strong. Matthew Broderick might be one of Hollywood’s most likeable characters, but he delivers a standout, chilling turn as hypercapitalist murderous real... Read More...

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Netflix’s OxyContin drama ‘Painkiller’ is just painful

THE PAIN NEVER GOES AWAY – August 10, 2023 - We’ve heard this story before. And we’ve heard it better. That’s really the only reaction you might have after watching Netflix’s limited series “Painkiller,”&n... Read More...

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New Netflix Series About Philanthropic Drug Pushers

THE FAMILY MADE $35 BILLION – July 28, 2023 - Court filings show that Purdue, owned by the Sackler family, earned more than $35 billion from the sales of OxyContin, which was approved by the FDA in 1995. Th... Read More...

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Mathew Broderick, aka Ferris Bueller, Portrays Murderer Richard Sackler

CHANNELING A QUIET KILLER – Aug. 4, 2023 - Based on work by investigative journalists Barry Meier and Patrick Radden Keefe, Painkiller is a coarse-grained social epic, angry and impassioned, intent on covering ... Read More...

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Wealthy Sackler Family Avoids Civil Lawsuits Over Opioid Deaths

THE 3 FACES OF EVIL – July 25, 2023 - Under a deal reached last year with thousands of state and local government entities, the company is to become a new entity, with its profits being used to fight the opioid epide... Read More...

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